The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-06-25
MRS. LoGAN's GREAT SORROW.
The Old Light and Brightness Gone from
Her Exes-lanniug Losan.

The Old Light and Brightness Gone from
Her Eyes-Manning Logan
To those who knew her well when her
face was full of bright joy and hope, Mrs
Logan is now another woman. There
Were times in years past when Mrs. Logan
was pressed with trouble, when her hus-
band was ill and when the days were
dark-sO dark that she hardly knew which
way to turn for relief. But in the darkest
day and hour there was always the sun
light of hope and faith shining in her fine
eyes and cheerful smile. Now her wan
face has gray tone in the suffering,
hopeless expression, and the old light and
brightness are gone from her eyes. Her
voice, too, has changed. 1t has lost all
that WAS joyous and happy, and to see her
now, the old charm Of her hearty, ringing
laugh comes back To one no part of
Mrs LOGAN, but as something far off and
an echo of quite another life. 1t used to
be said by their intimate friends that Gen
Logan would be more at loss If Mrs.
Logan died first, that he could not spare
her SO well, and that she would be the
stronger if left alone. Mrs. Logan was
strong and self reliant while her husband
lived Her life was much his life, or
rather his life was everything to her She
must, i'm the years to go on, whether she
will or not, become used if she is not rec
onciled to Ter loss. But Mrs. Logan is
too much changed to ever he the same
woman again. 1t is not that she is COM
planning, but il is the settled acquiescence
to blow, stunning i'll its suddenness, and
heavy and oyerpowering in its weight Of
sorrow. No house cOuld be more changed
than the Logan house, given over to the
sud atmosphere as il is now and to the ST.
lent routine of daily life.
Manning Logan has surprised every
body by his unlocked for strength and
manly bearing, and the thoughtful de
votion to his mother, unheeding his OWE
deep sorrow to comfort her. He had, as
an only, much indulged son, been rather
dependent ON his parents, with boyish,
unsettled opinions. But he seemed ut
once to grow old in years, dignity and
Judgment and to realize that so far as
possible he must now be the strong man
and the stay of his mother. He is only
%, but he seems older, much older, since
his fathers death. He has withdrawn
from the business firm here Of which he
was q member, and hear is to 20 into
business at Youngstown, o., where Miss
Edith Andrews, the lady to whom he is
engaged, resides. They are to be mar
ried early in the spring.
1t has been his desire, and was before
his fathers death, to assume the name of
John a. Logan, .Jr., and he is often called
by that name. But in his own family he
bears the name of Manning, and was
named for an uncle of his father. His re-
semblance to his father is becoming more
and more striking as he grows older. His
hair is straight, jet black and glossy as
the generals was, and his wavy black
mustache is quite the same. His feat
ures are more delicately cut, like Mrs.
Logan's, but the contour Of his head and
his height of figure are Ike Gen Logan,
with the natural difference of age There
is at this time hardly so handsome a young
man in Washington as Manning Logan,
or, as he is likely to be known in the near
future, John A. Logan, Jr.-Wasbington
Cor. Boston Transcript.